evite
To avoid.
Verb
- To avoid.
- The way which our adversaries take to evite this testimony, is most foolish and ridiculous: […] - 1678, Robert Barclay, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity:
- ... Balmawhapple could not, by the code of honour, evite giving satisfaction to ... Edward by such a palinode as rendered the use of the sword unnecessary, and which, being made and accepted, must necessarily sopite the...
- She stated she must see me, and, if I refused her satisfaction there, she would compel it where I should not evite her. - 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
Origin
Borrowed from Middle French eviter, from Latin ēvītō (“to avoid”).